Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Ollie the Optimist]

No it really isn't, we need world class and a top striker would be great, but not as a single signing...the squad is threadbare as it is. If we signed Suarez and noone else I don't see how we would suddenly become a great team, we had RVP (who I rate higher than Suarez) and never came close to challenging, in fact he carried us in his last season. What we need is a few quality players around the pitch, not one sole big name signing.

Cazorla is excellent and does make a difference, there was little excitement because he wasn't high profile really. There's also a big difference between 25 million and 40 million, as I said if we we're going to pay 40 million for Suarez why not go all out and get a superstar like Neymar for 8 million more who is much more lucrative marketing wise.

Nothing about this Suarez thing makes sense, from the amount bid, to the fact he's banned, to the fact he wants to go abroad on top of everything else. That is why I'm convinced this will never happen and will in fact just hinder our chances of strenghtening the team in the end.

the squad van persie carried was imo weaker then the one we have now, so signing suarez makes us stronger then the team with van persie and yes i do agree van persie is the best striker , but suarez as a player is second best striker in the premiership IMO. and also van persie only gave us one fully fit season, so thats also why we might not have challanged as much.

in terms of the squad, with van persie. the forward line was him, theo, chamkh, bentner. assuming we get suarez, its him, giroud, podolski, theo. thats much better.

in midfield, we've added cazorla. jack and ramsey have devolped more, ox too. rosicky looks brilliant everytime he plays, arteta is fantastic too. add in bernard instead of gervinho (if that happens) again we look stronger. also, we can spend on midfield, i htink we should. but i wonder if we are waiting for fabregas, thats 25 million pound deal if united get a bid accepted. now i know you will say why come here, we dont win trophies, but it seems suarez is interested in joining us, and he won a trophy with liverpool. also you have fellani buy out clause for 22 (?) million. we can get both suarez and a midfielder. i think we would challenge then

defence. well its the same defence really but after last season not much to be worried about compared to other areas. it was fantastic last year. opta put this stat out yesterday, only two teams won every game they took the lead in last season. one of them was us. so we can defend leads, its getting leads that are the problem. focus money on attack then.

using your neymar point, hes completely unproven in the league. so suarez is a better shout.

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40 million plus wages (those are all factored in), all in we're talking 75 million plus on one player. Based on that I can't see us spending any more.

Your forgetting the millions of wages we've saved on getting rid of deadwood, can't discount that as well. Wasn't that £20m or so a year?

[Özim]

Your forgetting the millions of wages we've saved on getting rid of deadwood, can't discount that as well. Wasn't that £20m or so a year?

Yeah I have a sneaky feeling they won't count that though.

[Cripps_orig]

Apparently we are talking to Suarez now

[Özim]

Apparently we are talking to Suarez now

What are we saying? Have we asked him what this 40 million clause is?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He's on his way!

[Niall_Quinn]

Apparently we are talking to Suarez now

Hopefully he won't figure out the £200K is per year rather than per week.

[LDG]

They won't sell for less that 50m anyway. They need that amount to buy Andy Carroll back.

[Ollie the Optimist]

They won't sell for less that 50m anyway. They need that amount to buy Andy Carroll back.

40 up front, 5 in add ons, get Suarez to transfer request forgoing five million singing on bonus. Deal =50 million

[Cripps_orig]

Dick Law to be replaced by Ollie?